| 1000 Beautiful House Plants and How to Grow Them Hardcover book by Jack Kramer Over 175 pages Copyright © 1969 by Jack Kramer " This complete guide to all the familiar, and many of the unfamiliar, plants for indoor growing considers decorative uses as well as culture. Whether you want an attractive window garden of plants suited to your conditions, a plant room filled with color, a fluorescent light set-up, a bottle or dish garden, or winter-into-spring pictures with tender and hardy bulbs, you will find here just the information you need.
In the A to Z Dictionary of botanical and common names, size, foliage, time and color of bloom are given for each plant with requirements of light, soil, and water. How to get months of color from your Thanksgiving Cactus, your Christmas poinsettias and cyclamens, weeks from your Easter azaleas (also how to get them all to bloom for you next year), what to do with your Easter lily, and how to bring an amaryllis or a pot of tulips to perfection are explained in detail.
All the old favorites are discussed - begonias, ferns, geraniums, palms, and vines for brackets and baskets - also how to grow orchids at your windows, bromeliads in your hall or office, and how to succeed with African-violets, gloxinias, and other gesneriads. With this book as guide, you can have something in bloom every month of the year, you can discover a world of unusual plants - the fruiting ardisia, the long-flowering true-blue eranthemum, the carmine ruellia, and white plectranthus - the miniatures and the fragrant kinds. " Summary of Contents includes: " The Beauty of Indoor Plants
Chapter 1: Attractive Ways with Plants
Chapter 2: Pots, Planters, and Baskets
Chapter 3: Your Thriving House Plants
Chapter 4: Bottle and Dish Gardens and Standards
Chapter 5: Bulbs for Color - Winter Into Spring
Chapter 6: Increasing Your Supply
Chapter 7: House-Plant Clinic
Chapter 8: Dictionary of 1000 House Plants
Chapter 9: Appendix
Kitchen Plants
Lists
Plant Societies and Their Publications
Books for Indoor Gardeners
Where to Buy Plants
Where to Buy Supplies
Words to Know
Index " The book is in pretty good condition with some edgewear to the cover, but the dust jacket is worn with several tears and some stains on the inside.
No torn or ripped pages.
There is a name and address stamp from the previous owner on the inside of the front cover. |
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